Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Bloomberg doesn’t offer RSS feeds. While I’m not aware of the official story on this, when I was in NYC a few weeks ago I asked them about it and they basically said they don’t want people consuming their content on non-Bloomberg sites. Okay, I think that’s wrong but it’s their content so they can [...]
I have an office in Denver, told IT to not bother putting a phone in it… the number just forwards to my mobile phone so why not just use my mobile number all the time. The interesting thing I noticed is that the direct office line rarely got called anyway. I don’t think we are [...]
Broadcasters should be very afraid. I’ve watched the quality of streaming video increase substantially in recent years and with the advent of exciting new technologies like Silverlight it is not beyond speculation to suggest that with the barriers lowering for new entrants to create and distribute compelling online video content and user experience that we [...]
JP makes a number of very good arguments in his post. Principal takeaway for me was the reaffirmation that when you are creating something entirely new, it’s futile to look for something that is being displaced as a measure of ROI. As it relates to social networks, I made a couple of comments over email [...]
Johannes Ernst is moderating a panel on OpenID that should be interesting, if for no other reason than Yahoo will be on it and talking about their embrace of OpenID. I wish I could go but I will be in Denver on the 29th.
I guess that whole non-replaceable MacBook Air battery issue kind of goes away with this development.
Devin makes a number of entirely logical and valid points in his post while at the same time completely missing the point that sub-portable laptops ARE for people who want basic functions. I looked at the demo on Apple’s site today and found myself lusting for one but then saying “well it doesn’t have an [...]
I was down at Cisco yesterday and saw a demo of their telepresence setup and the “connected sports” concept they are promoting for the new stadium the Oakland A’s want to build in Fremont. The telepresence demo blew me away. Sure it’s pricey at up to $300k per setup, but the experience is amazing and [...]
AWS filled a major gap in their offering with the addition of SimpleDB. Two things jumped out at me, the first being that it’s optimized for very large datasets and the second, more important as well, observation is that it’s designed around search indexes instead of schemas. There’s a lot more to be said about [...]
A BMW research group has tested the Internet Protocol to network automotive controllers. The engineers found that IP could well suit the real-time requirements even of safety-critical applications. But the most prominent benefits are in another area: With IP networking, costs for automotive electronics probably could be lowered. (link via AutoBlog) This is great news, [...]